Rev. C. E. Van Horne

VANHORNE

Posted By: Cyndi Vertrees (email)
Date: 11/6/2011 at 09:02:17

Rev. C. E. Van Horne

Van Horne,
Once Langer Aide, Dies

BISMARCK (AP) -- The Rev. C. E. Van Horne, 87, of Parshall, who left the Methodist pulpit to become a political lieutenant to Sen. William Langer, died Thursday in a hospital here where he had been a patient since Dec. 23. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Van Horne, a small, bespectacled, fiery man, was born in 1871 at Manson, Iowa and was graduated from Morningside College at Sioux City and Cornell Seminary at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1894 and served in Iowa. and in parishes at Churchs Ferry, Mandan, Beach, Velva, Des Lacs, Kenzie and Menoken in North Dakota.

Worked Together
He took the Mandan parish in 1910. Another newcomer at Mandan was States Atty. William Langer, just graduated from Columbia University law school. He and Van Horne joined forces in a war against law violators there, as the beginning of a friendship between the minister and the lawyer. In 1932, when Langer was elected governor, he induced Van Horne to leave the ministry and become deputy state registrar. The following year Van Horne returned to the ministry, becoming pastor at McKenzie. After his wife died in 1933, however, he left tile pulpit and served with Langer in politics.

In State Posts
From 1937 to 1939 he was state motor vehicle registrar. From 1942 to 1956 Van Horne worked as Langer's secretary in Washington. Since 1956, when he retired, he had spent his summers at Parshall and his winters in California with his sons.